Daytime Hospitalist Opportunity in Maine, Visa Friendly, 57294
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Hospitalist
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Full-Time
Work Environment
Hospital
Location
Maine, Maine, United States
Visa Sponsorship
Yes
Job Description
Last Update:
1/28/25
- Hospital is looking for BE/BC Hospitalists to join them
- Most procedures are conducted by Anesthesia and ER provider available in code situations
- Significant potential exists for a Hospitalist to join employed Maine practice
- All shifts are twelve hours in length, starting at 6:00 AM – Currently looking for day shift only at this time
- Approximately one-half day per week per hospitalist when working on the day shift is allocated to administrative or non-patient care duties.
- Immigration assistance provided by expert legal counsel is provided at the expense of the practice for candidates needing a J-1 waiver, H-1B visa or green card.
- 6 Internists (including 5 Hospitalists) and 8 Family Practice physicians
- Hospitalists provide 24/7 inpatient coverage, including weekends
- The hospital’s Emergency Department is continuously staffed with a Board Certified Emergency Medicine physician.
- Hospitalists are infrequently asked to cover additional shifts for colleague hospitalists who are out of the facility for vacations, holidays or continuing medical education.
- Expectations – provide high quality, efficient inpatient consultation and acute care within the 6-bed combined medical and surgical ICU, the 24-bed med/surg unit, and for admissions coming from the Emergency Department. The hospitalists are responsible for managing post-surgical patients who are on a ventilator and frequently perform pre-operative assessments for the attending surgeons. Communicate effectively on an ongoing basis with hospital social workers and discharge planners, office-based primary care physicians, with specialists at tertiary referral centers by telephone, and coordinate patient transfers to appropriate higher levels of care. Coordinate closely with hospital-employed radiologists and emergency medicine physicians to meet the care needs patients.
- Status: 10 on 10 off or 10 on 20 off.
- Patients: Community profile includes a large cohort of elderly patients with co-morbidities
- On-Call Rotation – infrequent coverage resulting from time-off requests of peer hospitalists for vacations, holidays and continuing medical education.
- Will consider visa candidates